| Visit the greenhouse and make notes on your selected habitat. Begin to research how to select/enrich for particular soil bacteria.

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| Visit the greenhouse and make notes on your selected habitat. <BR>Begin to research how to select/enrich for particular soil bacteria.

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| '''Homework''': Read all of Lab 2 & outline or make flow diagrams of your lab work in your lab notebook. Check [[BISC209/S12:Resources | Resources]] section of wiki for information about organizing your lab notebook.<BR>'''Graded Assignment''': .'''Discussion with References''' of how the enrichment culture techniques and media you will use will select soil bacteria of the specific groups we seek and differentiate them from other microbes in the community. Be sure to read the directions for this assignment found at: [[BISC209/S12: Assignment_209_Lab1 | Assignment: Enrichment for culturable bacteria of specific groups]].

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| '''Homework''': Read all of Lab 2 & outline or make flow diagrams<BR> of your lab work in your lab notebook. <BR>Check [[BISC209/S12:Resources | Resources]] section of wiki for <BR>information about organizing your lab notebook.<BR>'''Graded Assignment''': .'''Discussion with References''' <BR>of how the enrichment culture techniques and media<BR> you will use will select soil bacteria of the specific groups we seek <BR>and differentiate them from other microbes in the community. <BR>Be sure to read the directions for this assignment found at: [[BISC209/S12: Assignment_209_Lab1 | Assignment: Enrichment for culturable bacteria of specific groups]].

Visit the greenhouse and make notes on your selected habitat. Begin to research how to select/enrich for particular soil bacteria.

Homework: Read all of Lab 2 & outline or make flow diagrams of your lab work in your lab notebook. Check Resources section of wiki for information about organizing your lab notebook.Graded Assignment: .Discussion with Referencesof how the enrichment culture techniques and media you will use will select soil bacteria of the specific groups we seek and differentiate them from other microbes in the community. Be sure to read the directions for this assignment found at: Assignment: Enrichment for culturable bacteria of specific groups.

Check on your soil bacterial enrichment and selection cultures; Assess your isolation streaking; check on your plate count plates and move any in danger of overgrowing to cold room; BRING TO LAB 3 A NEW SOIL SAMPLE Collected from your group's sampling site. (Materials available for pick up in the lab.) Do not collect it until the day of lab.

Homework Search the web for photos of colonies of desired bacteria; Research likely bacterial members of your soil community, differentiating metabolic needs or capabilities, physicial differences, and other useful or differentiating characterisitics.

Graded Assignment: Make or Fill out a Table of the relevant morphologic, physical, and useful metabolic characteristics of expected genera of soil bacterial that you are attempting to find in your habitat. Be sure to read the directions for this assignment found at: Lab 2 Assignment: Assignment: Table of Cultured Soil Bacteria Characteristics.

Collect data from BIOLOG ECO plates. Check on cultures and continue isolation. View stained total soil community photomicrographs (provided by your instructor) and do calculations.

Homework: Quantify the number microorganisms in your soil community from the photomicrographs prepared and stained by your instructors from your Lab 3 soil extract. Compare this estimation to the CFU/gram of soil (dry wt) calculated in LAB 2 and try to explain the disparity, WITHOUT criticizing your execution of the plate count protocols or other procedures involved.

Homework: Write a partial Results section with figures/tables: Read more about this assignment at: Assignment: Partial Results section with Fig/Tables. Refer to the Results section (including the information on effective figure design and how to write figure legends in the "Guidelines for Science Writing" found in the Resources section of the wiki. Using other published journal articles as models is also an effective way to learn to write a good results analysis.

Homework:Analyze your 16S rDNA sequences and identify as narrowly as possible the bacteria that you isolated from your soil community. Make a table/figures or other displays of these data.

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Tues. 4/17- Wed. 4/18

Science Writing Workshop II

Homework: Write your final paper in the form of a scientific paper. See the Resources section for an extensive handout on How to Write in Scientific Style. Information on your final paper found at: Assignment: Final Paper

NO LABPAPER DUE

Tues. 4/24- Wed. 4/25

Final Paper Due by 4pm uploaded to Sakai AND in hard copy to your instructor's office.